X server no screens found or boot to a black screen

Hello,

First off, I apologize for being responsible for another topic regarding issues like this...

Secondly, I should mention that I never managed to get the X server working on this laptop when installing it manually... It has only worked on Ubuntu, but the installation was pretty automatic there...

I followed the steps on the wiki to install the X server. As for video drivers... I tried both nouveau and the official NVIDIA driver from the site, but in the end I always end up in a few scenarios..

1. Error when doing startx. No screens found. This occurs right after I finish the steps on the wiki. No xorg.conf or anything...

2. If after that I install the NVIDIA driver, the official one, and use the config from nvidia-xconfigSame thing.

I even tried specifying the BusID and that makes the error not show up but it boots to a black screen with nothing on it.

I'm stomped, I have been through the forums and google searching but none of the answers there helps my situation.

Re: X server no screens found or boot to a black screen

Nothing happens... The ignore EDID does not make a difference, the xorg log says Option IgnoreEDID is not used... How could that be?

As for the video drivers, they should both technically work (I mean methods of installing...) I tried.the wiki way though but nothing... Same result.

I used to boot the kernel with vga=773. I removed that for a test and now when I do startx I can see an undescore at the top left that I could not before. Not sure how this helps, if at all.

You can try using

Option "UseEDID" "False"

Let's try again, from the beginning. Remove everything you installed via .run from nvidia and follow the wiki on how to properly set up either nvidia or nouveau - pay attention to kernel boot lien, KMS etc.Don't use xorg.conf and don't generate one.

Re: X server no screens found or boot to a black screen

Just to be on the safe side since it is the first thing I am installing I formatted and took it from the top. I followed the wiki to the letter doing nothing more or less than what it said. I installed the proprietary nvidia driver from pacman because as I said on the first post nouveau did not work for me and I did not run any config utility or nvidia-settings. Now I rebooted and when I do startx... No screens found...

Re: X server no screens found or boot to a black screen

No screens found on a laptop / Nvidia OptimusOn a laptop, if the nvidia driver cannot find any screens, you may have an Nvidia Optimus setup : an Intel chipset connected to the screen and the video outputs, and a Nvidia card that does all the hard work and writes to the chipset's video memory.Check iflspci | grep VGAoutputs something similar to00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0df4 (rev a1)Unfortunately Nvidia has no plans to support this in their Linux drivers.You need to install the Intel driver to handle the screens, then if you want 3D software you should run them through Bumblebee to tell them to use the Nvidia card.